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iMessage Denial of Service hack floors Messages iOS app

Late-ish last night, a report emerged online detailing a DoS (denial of service) attach on developers’ iMessage accounts. The developers in question have had their iOS Messages app bombarded with spam messages. TheNextWeb caught up with iH8sn0w, whose account was the subject of the attack. “On Wednesday night my private iMessage handle got flooded…

Apple’s iPhone is the most hacked mobile device

Web security company SourceFire has issued a report titled “25 years of Vulnerabilities”, charting the Critical Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) of software and mobile technology. A CVE is described as ”the international standard for vulnerability numbering or identification”. The startling report shows that the iPhone is the most hackable of all…

Use Siri to read iBooks

If you’ve ever wanted someone to read your iBooks out loud to you, there is a solution. Siri is called a “personal digital assistant” for a reason, and now users are finding out ways to make the technology even more useful. In order to make Siri read aloud to you, you will need to follow some fairly simple steps. First, under general settings, click on…

Russians program car to be controlled by iPad [Video]

 Ever wanted to control your car with your iPad? Me too. I think that’d be awesome (though, probably a little dangerous). Well, the people in the video above from Russia decided they would do just that, program their car into being controlled by an iPad – and it worked. The video above is really all that need be said, because it speaks for itself really….

Developer forum to blame in Apple hacking

If you’ve been following the news today, you probably heard about Apple and other companies being exposed to a hacker. More information has come out and it turns out an iPhone developer forum is the cause of this hacking scandal. The website, iPhoneDevSDK, contained malicious software that was used to hack into Macs, including those of Apple’s…

Apple and Mac owners fall victim to hacker

Apple announced today that it was hacked. The company behind the “virus-free” Mac computers has been hit with malicious software that infected multiple employees’ computers. The same software, downloaded when visiting a software developing site, has also infected other Mac users. Surprisingly, it is also the same virus that was used to hack Facebook late…

iOS 6.x jailbreak website now live

If you were planning on jailbreaking your iOS 6.x device soon, we have a website you may want to add to your “favorites” soon. The jailbreak for iOS 6.x is apparently being referred to as “evasi0n” and the team behind the jailbreak has launched a new website. The website contains a progress bar below the image of iOS 6 friendly devices that currently…